Sunday, August 10, 2014

CALL FOR DISCERNMENT

It is not uncommon to receive posts consisting of Christian stuff (with even Bible verses), but the conclusions being something like this:'Within 10 min, forward this post to at least 15 people, if not, something bad will happen to you.' or 'If you do the forwarding as instructed, within 24 hrs, some miracle/good will happen to you.'These kinds of conclusions have no basis in Scriptures. Such posts are from the desk of the devil as any kind of motivation based on fear is devilish.Bible only says: God will certainly punish anyone who breaks rules in the Bible & bless anyone who follows the rules in the Bible.Hence, we can & should delete such posts as soon as we get it without any fear. Do not be part of such evil processes by forwarding such posts to others.Surprisingly, even some professing believers forward posts that have statements like, 'This is God sending this message' ; 'I am a dead person sending this message' etc.,Of course, forwarding Scriptural posts to others will be a blessing to the recipients. It is good. In such cases, posts may end something like this: 'You may feel free to forward to others' or even, 'don’t let the devil stop you from forwarding to others'. But, certainly not with threats like: ' If you don't...' or 'If you do...giving devil's false promises'."Fear is born of satan & if we would only take time to think a moment, we would see that everything satan says is founded upon a falsehood." - A B Simpson."Meet your fears with faith." - Max Lucado.Pro 1:33 says: "Whoever listens to me will have security. He will be safe, with no reason to be afraid."2Ti 1:7 says: "For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control."May God help you to spread only His Word in all its purity for His glory.(You may save this post & forward to those who may send unscriptural posts as mentioned above.)